In verse. According to Capgrave "Englisht" from a Latin translation by Arrek, of the Greek "Life" by St. Athanasius. cf. Forewords, p. xxiii.The text is that of the Arundel ms. 396 in the British Museum, with that of the Rawlinson ms. (Poet. 118) in the Bodleian, for the first three books.

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